Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 78
He declares that we cannot live longer here; and I must say, after due reflection, he is perfectly right."
Who acts: husband, we, I · What happens: declare, not live, say, be · To what, where: due reflection · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, we, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 declares | nsubj |
| 2 | declares | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 live | mark |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 live | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 live | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 live | advmod |
| 7 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 declares | advcl |
| 8 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 here | advmod |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 live | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 say | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 say | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 say | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 say | aux |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 declares | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 reflection | punct |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 reflection | case |
| 17 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 reflection | amod |
| 18 | reflection | reflection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 say | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 right | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 right | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 right | cop |
| 22 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 23 right | advmod |
| 23 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 say | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 declares | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 declares | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | present | husband | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not live | can | we | here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | must | I | due reflection | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent reflection=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is | present | husband | perfectly, right property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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